Grants and Contributions:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year. (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)

DASAEROSPACE is developing a LiDAR system for use in urban rail, autonomous vehicles and mobilex000D
robots. A collaboration with the University of Toronto Mechatronics and Microsystems Design research groupx000D
is being sought to develop a 2-axis MEMS mirror which will be utilized in the scanning mechanism of thex000D
LiDAR system. The development of a MEMS mirror is critical to the success of the LiDAR system and atx000D
present there is no such mirror available on the market which satisfies all the system requirements. Thex000D
company is currently using commercial-off-the-shelf MEMS mirrors which offer limited capabilities in termsx000D
of range, resolution, and field of view. The focus of this Engage project is to developed the fast-tilting MEMSx000D
mirror of the largest possible size (aperture) and with the widest possible tilt angles. The mirror should bex000D
suitable for serial manufacturing and should withstand environmental factors such as vibration and temperaturex000D
fluctuations. The key desired mirror specifications are as follows: 1.Aperture: ~10 mm; 2.Tilt angles 2D: +/-x000D
30 deg. (mechanical) along the inplane X and Y axes; 3. Frequency: >1 kHz (fast axis), > 5 Hz (slow axis).